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Re: small laptop with only floppy drive



Did you installed the x windows system?
check it like that:
dpkg -l x-window-system
also
dpkg -l kde
if they are not installed, install them like that:
apt-get install x-window-system kde

On Saturday 09 April 2005 03:46, Brandon Richards wrote:
> but the X11 directory isnt there?
> just wondering how to do it?
>
> On Apr 8, 2005 6:58 PM, Kfir Lavi <kfirlavi@actcom.co.il> wrote:
> > On Saturday 09 April 2005 02:43, Brandon Richards wrote:
> > > another problem developed.  i have stable installed.  when i got it
> > > installed it wont let me into the graphical interface due to the fact
> > > that i think i chose the wrong install option.  when i installed i
> > > chose the vga driver option but then i chose the colors as 24.  now it
> > > wont boot into the graphical interface.  i found a website to help but
> > > cant figure out how to rpm the package into the directory.  please
> > > help.  website is:
> > > <http://www.hpcc.uh.edu/~tonyc/sony/linux-main.html>.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help u can provide.  also there is no
> > > /etc/x11/xf86config directory in my system.
> >
> > This is the file you will need to edit as root:
> > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> >
> > Find the section:
> > Section "Screen"
> >
> > and after change this:
> >        DefaultDepth    16
> >
> > maybe your DefaultDepth is 24, change it to 16.
> >
> > Then restart the X server.

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